Degrees

PhD, English, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2011
MA, Women’s Studies, University of Arizona, 2004
BS, English Literature and Women’s Studies, Iowa State University, 2002

Professional Areas of Specialty and Interest

• Creative writing (poetry, personal essay)
• Contemporary poetry
• Women writers
• Women and gender studies

Courses Taught

Poetry Writing
Writing Poetry: Women’s Poetry
Introduction to Creative Writing
Women in Popular Culture
Twentieth Century Women Writers
Introduction to Literature
Writing: Inquiry
Writing: Rhetoric
Writing & Communities
Writing: Rhetoric and Reading

Selected Publications

Books and Chapbooks— poetry:
Branding Girls - Finishing Line Press, 2011
Ghost Girl - Pudding House, 2010
My Imaginary - Dancing Girl Press, 2010

Selected Journal Publications

Poems in: Margie, Poet Lore, The Los Angeles Review, The Fence, Mississippi Review, Cider Press Review, and others
Stories and Essays in: Arts & Letters, 13th Moon, Blackbird, American Short Fiction, Pebble Lake Review, and others

Honors and Awards

Academy of American Poets Award, Mari Sandoz Award, Susan Atefat Peckham Fellowship, Center for Great Plains Studies Grant, Louise Van Sickle Fellowship, Louise Pound Fellowship, Pushcart Prize Nominee, Persea Books Lexi Rudnitsky Prize semifinalist